Rebels

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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - The ink had not yet dried on another promise for peace in this country as fighting broke out in its unruly west overnight, with civilians fleeing their ransacked villages and men firing at French soldiers who are here to enforce a cease-fire in what was once the jewel of their empire. In Accra, the capital of neighboring Ghana, officials of the Ivorian government of President Laurent Gbagbo and the rebels who have sought to overthrow him since September agreed to the composition of a national reconciliation government, as envisioned by a peace accord signed nearly six weeks ago. Rebels dropped their most contentious demand - control of the interior and defense ministries - in exchange for seats on what is to be a newly established national security council.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The United Nations has evacuated all foreign aid workers from the eastern Zaire city of Kisangani, leaving thousands of Rwandan refugees to an uncertain fate, U.N. officials said yesterday.The move came one day after the secretary-general called for an international peacekeeping force in eastern Zaire.U.N. officials said aid workers had been pulled out because the increasingly feeble Zairian government could no longer guarantee their security in Kisangani, a strategically important city on the Congo River that rebel forces have been trying to capture.

OXCHUC, Mexico -- Declaring that the Mexican army had secured villages ravaged by last week's bloody Indian uprising, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari ordered a cease-fire yesterday and sent a negotiator to Chiapas to begin talks with the rebels who call themselves Zapatistas."

By Edmund Sanders and Edmund Sanders,LOS ANGELES TIMES | February 5, 2008

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Thousands of frightened Chadians took advantage of a lull in fighting yesterday to flee N'Djamena when rebels withdrew from the capital after two days of heavy clashes with government troops. Officials, however, warned that battles probably were not over, and rebel leaders vowed to attack again. "Rebels still have a capability of fighting," said Capt. Christophe Prazuck, spokesman for the French Ministry of Defense, which has 1,900 troops deployed in the central African country and has evacuated nearly 1,000 foreigners.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The Indonesian military said yesterday that food and fuel were running short in the northern province of Aceh, where the government began a major military offensive against separatist rebels last week. UNICEF warned of an impending crisis for the civilian population with the collapse of weak health services, and reported arson to more than 200 schools in the past five days. The increasing difficulties for civilians came after the Indonesian government pledged that the offensive, which is intended to suppress the rebels within six months, would be different from those in the past.

In today's culture, rebels often get a bad rap. But not all of them deserve the negative connotations that come with the word. A number of people who were once labeled rebels are now considered heroes by mainstream America, according to Cherrie Woods, the director of marketing and public relations at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was once considered a rebel. So was Rosa Parks, she said. "In the '50s and '60s, any African-Americans who were not treated as equals and chose to challenge this system were viewed as rebels," Woods said.

MOSCOW -- Rebels in the separatist republic of Chechnya struck back forcefully against Russian positions yesterday, conducting a series of raids against towns the Russian command had declared secure. The raids -- in which the rebels attacked the military command in two towns and a police checkpoint in a third -- forced Russian officers to admit to major setbacks in their 3-month-old campaign to reclaim rebel territory. Chechen Vice President Vakha Arsanov told Russia's Interfax news agency that the rebels had retaken control of a string of towns in eastern Chechnya.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Nevada-Las Vegas coach Jerry Tarkanian was accused of blowing smoke when he repeatedly said he feared meeting Georgetown in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament West Regional.But Tarkanian wasn't just bluffing. The Hoyas, 10-point underdogs, threw a scare into the defending champions before bowing, 62-54, at the McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus.The Runnin' Rebels, who stretched their unbeaten streak to 43, advanced to the West semifinals next weekend in Seattle, where they will face Utah, which won a double-overtime thriller over Michigan State, 85-84, in double-overtime.

LAS VEGAS -- It was a play in the second half Sunday afternoon that did not appear in the box score of top-seeded Nevada-Las Vegas' tense, 62-54 victory over Georgetown in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association West Regional in Tucson, Ariz.UNLV's Larry Johnson had just completed a nine-point run to give the Runnin' Rebels a 44-29 cushion with 16 minutes left. As the muscular 6-foot-7, 250-pound forward ran back on defense, he did not bother to take a detour around the Hoyas' Brian Kelly, who had decked Rebels guard Greg Anthony in the first half.

By Gilbert A. Lewthwaite and Gilbert A. Lewthwaite,London Bureau of The Sun | May 29, 1991

LONDON -- Ethiopian rebels agreed yesterday to replace military dictatorship with democratic government and promised to ease the way for the immediate flow of international aid to starving millions in the violence- and drought-ridden country.The agreement, ending two days of U.S.-brokered peace talks, came hours after the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, the largest of three rebel movements, captured the capital, Addis Ababa.Faced with the prospect of total chaos in the capital, the United States asked the front Monday to take immediate "state responsibility" in the beleaguered capital.